On 23 Apr 2009, at 22:09, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
torsdag 23 april 2009 22:36:49 skrev Alex Blewitt <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I don't know of any other SCM that allows you to un-ignore files in
the way that Git does; my guess is that most people wouldn't miss it
if it weren't there. A .gitignore customised editor is probably
overkill too - after all, you can just open it up in a text editor
and
make changes yourself. I've amended a few .cvsignore files in my time
manually, but I wouldn't want to overcomplicate the menu for that.
Why do we want a plugin for git? We have the command line.
I mean, it's trivial to open up the .gitignore file in Eclipse as a
text file. I was doing that to check the implementation worked whilst
adding entries to the .gitignore.
I've seen all manner of bad UIs in applications created because the
developer wanted 'total flexibility' and exposed everything via the
UI. For something as simple as ignoring a file, which is already a
pretty standardised operation across SCMs, I don't see any benefit in
making it more complicated than it needs to be.
Alex
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